Network Error Logging

[yoavweiss]

WebKittens

@achristensen07

Title of the proposal

Network Error Logging

URL to the spec

https://www.w3.org/TR/network-error-logging/

URL to the spec's repository

https://github.com/w3c/network-error-logging/

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Description

Network Error Logging enables developers and site operators to know when their site has failed to load, due to network errors.

The current specification admittedly needs some work, as it's not built on top of the latest Reporting API nor Fetch. But there are plans to improve that, so I'd love to get a position from the WebKit team about the NEL concept more than about the current specifics.

A few points worth paying attention to:

• In terms of privacy, I think we can evolve the API to support non-credentialed reports that use an anonymizing proxy in UAs that support that.
• NEL state is cached, but we can make sure that cache is partitioned just like any other cache.